Eyeglass-holder



(No Model.) I F. A.-GLARK.

' y las -Hamm- No. 235,995. Patented Dec. 28,1880.

NAFETEHS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRANKLIN A. CLARK, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

EYEGLASS-HOLDE'R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,995, dated December 28, 1880.

Application filed August 23, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN A. CLARK, of Cleveland, in the county of (Juyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new Eyeglass- Holder; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents a perspective view.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of eyeglassholders designed as a means for attaching the glass to the garments ofthe wearer; audit consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

The holder is made from a single piece of wire, one end of which is pointed to form the pin a, the other end doubled and bent into hook shape to form a catch and guard, 72, for the point of the pin. Midway of the length of the Wire it is doubled to form the end 0 of the hook, the two branches brought close together, the inner branch turned upward to form one part, d, of the back of the hook, the other part, 6, carried below the bend f of the hook, and bent to form an eye, It. Thenceit is carried up parallel with the part at of the hook, and forms the other part, t, of the back. The

two parts iand d of the back and the parts (No model.)

forming the end of the hook, bend, and eye are all in the same plane. The two parts at the upper end of the back are twisted together or interlaced, as at l, the one branch, m, turned to the right, the other, a, to the left, the one terminatin g in the guard 12, the other bent to form the coil or spring 1'. The two parts m and n together form the back or body of the pin, and from the spring a the pin extends substantially parallel with the back to the guard, in the usual manner of safety-pins.

The eye h, which is the essential feature of this invention, is formed in the same piece with the rest of the holder, and serves as a means for attaching one end of the cord, to the other end of which the glasses are attached.

I am aware that eyeglass-holders made from a single piece of Wire and in the shape of a hook and safety-pin are well known, and therefore do not broadly claim such a holder; but

What I do claim is- As an improved article of manufacture, an eyeglass-holder consisting of a hook and safetypin, with a depending eye on the hook for atv tachin g the cord, all formed from a single piece of wire, substantially as described.-

FRANKLIN A. CLARK.

Witnesses JOHN W. FOWLER, SAMUEL B. GUNN. 

